The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 29, 2024
The Principal Wife
1984
(American, b. 1934)
Overall: 254 x 203.2 x 20.4 cm (100 x 80 x 8 1/16 in.)
Gift of Watson K. Blair 2011.32
Location: not on view
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Hicks has studied textile traditions in South America, Mexico, Morocco, and India throughout her six-decade career, and combines indigenous techniques with modernist ideals to create her hanging fiber works.Description
The Principal Wife is part of a larger series by the pioneering fiber artist Sheila Hicks. To make these works Hicks wraps bundles of undyed linen thread with brightly dyed thread at random intervals to form dynamic hangings that cascade down the wall. Like an object found in nature, this sculpture combines both structure and spontaneity. The linen fibers are fastidiously wrapped in colored threads, while the organic draping of the fiber bundles is left to gravity.- 1984–2011Collection of José and Watson Blair2011Watson K. Blair, Hobe Sound, FL, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art2011–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Simon, Joan, Sheila Hicks, Susan C. Faxon, and Whitney Chadwick. Sheila Hicks: 50 Years. Andover, Mass: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 2010Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 371
- Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation 2021. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
- {{cite web|title=The Principal Wife|url=false|author=Sheila Hicks|year=1984|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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